Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-29
THE STOMACH.
AN OLD NEW YORKER GIVES SOME
ADVICE IN REGARD TO ITS
TREATMENT.


gave some points to a reporter OF
the San the other day about the
wav for a man TO make friends with
his stomach. "TheTe are two big
mistakes that almost all persons
make,v said he. "One is that they
don't eat the right things, and the
other is that what they do eat they
don't eat right. Dyspepsia and in
digestion are killing more people
than rum ten times over. Why
delirium tremens is joy compared
with a bad digestion. When a
man has the tremens he's happy
sometimes, because he forgets him
self, but when he's got dyspepsia
his stomach is always with him,
and he's always conscious of it.
He can't sleep. His food doesn't
taste right. Boils break out over
him. He's morbid. All his friends
seem to have deserted him, and
some day he goes off and blows
his brains out, and the public and
newspapers say lie had business
troubles. Business troubles Why
what does a man care for business
troubles when his stOmach's all
right? Ifhis stomach is right his
head will be clear, and he'll pros
per. No glutton or dyspeptic can
stand up alongside of a man with
sound stomach and clear head.
"When you got up this morning
what did YOU do Vert right off
to breakfast and filled yourself,
with your nose in the papers and
your mind wandering over the
earth. You don't know what you
ate. or how much or how long 1t
took. For all the good it did you
you might as well kave swallowed
bacon and cOrnbread, or turkey and
buckwheat cakes, or any other
mixture that would take up space
in Your stomach. Then, while you
ate, you gulped down ice water
and coffee alternately, and when
you got through you lit a cigar and
went down town, glad you had
done part of the work of the day.
"That's not breakfasting. It's
loading up your stomach, and it's
worse for you than if you hadn't
eaten anything. Then you have a
headache and feel bad, aud grow
fat. and wonder why it all is. It's
because you don't pay as much at
tention to your stomach as you do
to your office boy. Your stomach
takes its revenge by making you
wretched. To squelch it yOu put
lot of liquor into it and gulp some
ice water on that with cracker or
pretzel and bit of cheese. What
sort of a mixture is that Just
imagine the cheese and rum and
pretzel and think that something
inside of you has got to get away
with that. If you want to drink,
drink and enjoy your drink. Don't
down it and fling things at 1t when
you've got it down. Take glass
of wine and enjoy it, but don't fling
it into your stomach as you would
YOUR fist into somebody's eye.
Your stomach ought to be your
best friend, but you 60 to pitch
ing into it it'll show fight, and YOU
NAV as well understand that it will
get the best Of it.
"When you get up in the morn
Ing take a big drink CT water.
Your system wants water first. An
engine isn't first fired up and then
some water let into the boiler.
Clean your teeth, ana let the water
run from the spigOt while you're
doing it. Then drink pint of it..
| Use common bydrant water; no ice,
no salt, no mineral water. Ordina-
nv water is good enough for any
ordinary healthy man. Keep away
from drugs and pills and give your
stomach show.
"If you're in a hurry to read the
papers. read them before breakfast.
When YOU sit down to the break
fast table be happy; you're going
to do something pleasant. Break
fast isn't a penalty imposed on you
or task to be performed as soon
as possible, but a pleasant, enloya'
BILE occasion. Try and have some
body talk to you, and talk YOURSELF
Laugh. start of with fruit-some
oranges, say. Then eat some fish
and stale bread or stale rolls OF
toast. If you want anything more
eat some meat. Take your time to
it all. stay at the table for an
hour, and eat all the time. Don't
eat much, but take your time to it
If you haven't time eat less. The
time you spend at breakfast will bt
saved over and over again during
the day
"If you've been up the night be
fore, don't take a cocktail or lc'
water. Try some broth and some
tripe if your stomach's pretty fal
gone. When a mans been OIL
little his sto mach is raw and in
famed. lie. doesn't want to star
right off wi tn more rum. Let hin
give his st omach a show. tllpa'
him to. Coddle your stomach il
the morning, and It'll stand up 10
YOU at night. If you go pitchinI
into it e rst thing it will have its re